Word: doublethink
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That a college can, on the one hand, require students to agree that the Bible is "verbally inspired by God and inerrant in the original writing" and, on the other, hand out degrees in anthropology is doublethink enough. What is even more incredible is that Wheaton can rank on someone's list of best colleges...
...evils, existing beneath the umbrella of its overall good effect of preserving individual freedom. Capitalism has a good case to argue. It is the case of freedom." The fact remains that throughout the world, millions prefer security to freedom, or think they do, never having known real freedom. Indeed doublethink Communism teaches them to redefine security as freedom...
Gold is hardly shocked. He is no stranger to doublethink. A literary hustler whose interest in Government is a sham, he does not even vote, a fact "he could not disclose publicly without bringing blemish to the image he had constructed for himself as a radical moderate...
Simon attacks not only players and plays but also fellow critics. This fall he accused the New York Times's Richard Eder of such "tergiversation, equivocation, doublethink and simultaneous talking out of both corners of his mouth as took his predecessor, Clive Barnes [now at the New York Post], years of painstaking practice to master." Colleagues are quick to pan Simon in return: "The Count Dracula of critics!" (Andrew Sarris, the Village Voice); "The Transylvanian vampire!" (Robert Brustein. Yale Drama School); "Personally offensive!" (Brendan Gill, The New Yorker). Many of Simon's critics, however, would not dispute...
...going to the front. One could only cross out phrases, nothing could be added. A soldier in the hospital had the choice of crossing out "sick/wounded" and "am going on well/hope to be discharged soon." The recipient was protected from war realities, experience was reduced to a choice of doublethink phrases. Forms, of course, stuck with...